Teaching kindergartners to cook Kkadduki

Written by Bessie about Korea, Republic of. Feelin' happy
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Once a month we have to teach our kindergartners how to cook something.  We have 2 hours to teach them how to make something simple like pasta salad or difficult like rice cakes. As a teacher, it's a huge test of patience because the kids get so excited. I've found bribing them with stirring rights generally helps the whole things flow better.

So what's kkakduki (깍두기) you're wondering? Yeah, it's pronounced cock-dookie. Us teachers were extremely excited about that. Well, it's a kind of kimchi = radish cubes + red pepper spices. In the end it looked like this:
Cooking Kkakdukki (kimchi) with my kindergartners
We eat kkakduki at least once a week for lunch.

Cooking this time ended up being loads of fun. Each kid got a cutting board & a big plastic cake knife to cut radishes. They love using the knives. Then I rationed up the ingredients so each of them put in a little bit of the garlic, red pepper powder, and nasty little shrimp. How do you strech a recipe with 4 ingedients into an hour? Uh huh, we all wonder the same thing sometimes.

Here's the cooking in action:
Cooking Kkakdukki (kimchi) with my kindergartnersCooking Kkakdukki (kimchi) with my kindergartners
Cooking Kkakdukki (kimchi) with my kindergartners
They were working so hard, they probably should have been getting paid.
Cooking Kkakdukki (kimchi) with my kindergartners
Cooking Kkakdukki (kimchi) with my kindergartners
They each had the important job of 4 mini-shrimps in the bowl.
Cooking Kkakdukki (kimchi) with my kindergartners
Each anxious for their turn to stir.
Cooking Kkakdukki (kimchi) with my kindergartners

Cooking Kkakdukki (kimchi) with my kindergartners
Kyle with his kimchi-loving kids.

With 20 minutes to kill, I let one of my students take some pictures. The rest fought to sit on my lap. :)
Cooking Kkakdukki (kimchi) with my kindergartners
Cooking Kkakdukki (kimchi) with my kindergartners
Cooking Kkakdukki (kimchi) with my kindergartners

Aren't they adorable? Exhausting, but adorable.

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